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A bust of B.R. Ambedkar desecrated at Tiruvottiyur in Chennai.

Vandalism, a mob sport

People who take down a statue, saying they no longer have any use for that icon, are filled with an intense hatred for...

1 April 2018 12:25 AM IST

A statue of Soviet state founder Valdimir Lenin was toppled by protesters in Kiev during a rally organised by supporters of EU interation.

Erase memories, perpetuate hate

Social justice movements seek the removal of racist Civil War era symbols from public spaces amid the rise of far-right...

1 April 2018 12:22 AM IST

Representational image.

A clear and present danger

Chinese have carefully protected their data flows and have domestic equivalents to Western giants is known.

26 March 2018 12:41 AM IST

World is more divided than before though its not just because of social media. People were already divided; but all of this is getting exaggerated by social media.

Free products sell your privacy

We need digital economy where our data and our attention is not for sale to the highest-bidding authoritarian or...

26 March 2018 12:38 AM IST

User is being manipulated at every stage on platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter etc.

People must be smarter than the tools

Cyber Security experts often ask one tough question, why is it that people feel the need to put up everything on social...

26 March 2018 12:37 AM IST

Film actors click selfies at a 2014 film awards event.

Stuck in selfie state?

Selfitis is not a classifiable mental disorder, but further research is needed on its psychosocial impact.

20 March 2018 12:54 AM IST

Famous Selfie: Ellen DeGeneres tweeted an image of selfie with Bollywood superstars taken at 2014 Oscar awards.

Are You Suffering from Selfitis?

Everyone is clicking selfies. But is this a symptom of an epidemic? No, not necessarily, say experts.

20 March 2018 12:51 AM IST

Tech companies have been accused of not being proactive against those who abuse their platforms to publicise hoaxes, narco trade, paedophilia and terror funding?

Silicon logic stumps users

India is no different whether it is fake news or propaganda.

12 March 2018 3:06 AM IST

World is more divided than before though its not just because of social media. People were already divided; but all of this is getting exaggerated by social media.

The good, bad and the ugly

The creators and practitioners of social media tech are themselves on a learning curve even as they try to rein in the...

12 March 2018 3:03 AM IST

Parents wait for news after a reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. (Photo: AP)

Universities can educate world on tolerance

Universities reflect the times we live in; one that is more intolerant than we would like it to be.

4 March 2018 12:45 AM IST

Students take part in a protest demanding the release of JNU student union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, accused of sedition, in New Delhi in Feb. 2016.

Intolerance is engineered

Students becoming pawns on political chess board. Course contents have a strong political flavour.

4 March 2018 12:42 AM IST

Violence denotes failure of social imagination

Erosion of academic sobriety of universities paves the way for abuse of freedom of expression one way or another.

4 March 2018 12:37 AM IST